Journal of Information Processing
Online ISSN : 1882-6652
ISSN-L : 1882-6652
The Strong 3-rainbow Index of Comb Product of a Tree and a Connected Graph
Zata Yumni AwanisA.N.M. SalmanSuhadi Wido Saputro
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2020 Volume 28 Pages 865-875

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Let G be a nontrivial connected graph of order n. Let k be an integer with 2 ≤ kn. A strong k-rainbow coloring of G is an edge-coloring of G having property that for every set S of k vertices of G, there exists a tree with minimum size containing S whose all edges have distinct colors. The minimum number of colors required such that G admits a strong k-rainbow coloring is called the strong k-rainbow index srxk(G) of G. In this paper, we study the strong 3-rainbow index of comb product between a tree and a connected graph, denoted by Tno H. Notice that the size of Tno H is the trivial upper bound for srx3(Tno H), which means we can assign distinct colors to all edges of Tno H. However, there are some connected graphs H such that some edges of Tno H may be colored the same. Therefore, in this paper, we characterize connected graphs H with srx3(Tno H) = |E(Tno H)|. We also provide a sharp upper bound for srx3(Tno H) where srx3(Tno H) ≠ |E(Tno H)|. In addition, we determine the srx3(Tno H) for some connected graphs H.

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